Thanks for keeping it thoughtful, Z. I hashed out all the arguments about censorship on Usenet, ten or twelve years ago. Yes, the cure for hate speech is tolerance, the cure for hate speech is for good people to speak up... but the worst form of censorship is the one that lets the hate speech flood the channel until there is no room for good people to post.
HT, this stuff does not happen in a vacuum and I don't just grab one post and say "BAM! Ban that guy!" I'm on here reading at all hours day and night. I've been wondering for weeks, maybe months, why the heck UC felt the need to drop a two-line downer into other people's threads like a turd in the pool, again and again. This was a tipping point incident, long time coming.